Roper Center's Convention and Elections Resources!

Excited about the upcoming conventions?!  Roper Center has some great polling data about conventions and party issues, especially historical data! Anyone can read their recent articles about public perceptions of conventions over time and the 1968 Democratic Convention. We subscribe to this wonderful resource at UNCG and you can find much more data through our database access.

Election polling for the political nerd in you!

Through our Roper Center membership we now have access to fourteen USA Today/Gallup Organization studies from July-September 2012. The polls cover the presidential elections and the republic and democratic conventions! Take a look at the list of studies to see the topics. You can also use iPOLL to search for individual questions about the 2012 elections. Check out Roper Center for Public Opinion Research for more polling goodness.

You may need to use main access link if you are off-campus. Let us know if you have questions!

Data from Roper Center on 9/11

What were Americans thinking & feeling immediately following 9/11?

FREE data on the tenth anniversary of 9/11— NBC News Terrorism Poll and NBC News & The Wall Street Journal New York City/Pentagon Terrorist Attacks Poll. Download datasets in SPSS/PASW along with their codebooks to get a more in-depth analysis of what Americans were thinking and feeling on the days immediately following 9/11 at Surveys from the days following September 11, 2001.

Members can access toplines for this data using the links below:

• NBC Poll # 6018: Terrorism (United States) [USNBC2001-6018]
  Survey by NBC News. Conducted by Hart-Teeter Research Companies, field dates: September 12, 2001, sample: National adult.
• NBC/WSJ Poll # 6019: New York City/Pentagon Terrorist Attacks (United States) [USNBCWSJ2001-6019]
  Survey by NBC News and The Wall Street Journal. Conducted by Hart-Teeter Research Companies, field dates: September 15-16, 2001, sample: National adult. RoperExplorer is also available for online analysis of this dataset (Off-campus access for UNCG faculty, students, and staff only).
  

Cool tools from Roper Center

Interested in polling data and learning more about polling techniques? The Roper Center is just the resource for you! Check out their recent blog post on Education Tools and more.

Education Tools Available

Roper Center offers a series of tutorials on some of the fundamentals of public opinion polling, including definitions, examples, and explanations that serve to introduce interested students to the field of public opinion research, also covers the basics of analysis and interpretation of the results.

• POLLING 101: Fundamentals of Polling. Definitions, examples, explanations.
• POLLING 201: Analyzing Polls. Analysis techniques and data interpretation.
• Teaching Tools. Great exercises for students.

Hot Topic - Immigration

Amend constitution so children of illegal immigrants born in US do not get citizenship?


Survey by Pew Research Center for the People & the Press. Interviewing conducted by Abt SRBI, June 16-June 20, 2010. [USSRBI.062410P.R60]

Related information can be found by searching the Center's iPOLL Databank or by visiting Topics At A Glance--Immigration on the Roper Center website.